All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
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More Bell Hooks Quotes
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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